Blackglass Theme Final Version (Modified Blueglass theme)

[kicker75]

Well well well, here is my final version for now. Everything has been redone. I still have to figure out which name if there is for some items in the more games and programs menu, like gameex website, and most icons there. But I made a nice gameex replacements logo for it.

I worked pretty much all day on the theme, so bare with me for the missing screenshots, I might add them later, but trust me, if you downloaded one of my previous release, by all means, download this one.

I haven't created anything in this theme. Only redone other's work. From the base theme, to the icons, logos, etc... I only take credits for putting it up together and trying to make it look as best as I can at the moment. (Why I said final version for now earlier... )

So here is the link to it, just so everything is clear, this is a 1024x768 4:3 theme, I sent some 1920x1200 screenshots earlier of it as seen on my computer, that's because I run GameEx on both my 24" widescreen lcd and my old tv at 1024x768.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G5CUZW2F

If some people would be interested in seeing an higher res version, I would probably be up to do it, as I would use it myself too. The 1024 one looks pretty damn good at 1920 even if it's stretched, but I could use some more real estate space to display more stuff on each pages.

If you have any thoughts let me know.

[Brian Hoffman]

First off I would like to thank you for your contribution.

Secondly I would like to take a second and remind everyone that on the gameex.net and .com websites there is a theme section that you can upload you theme to with a little about info and a screenshot.

This is the best way to ensure your theme gets max exposure. It also attracts the people that browse the main site for themes and gameex features.

Megaupload links expire and threads do get lost or buired or taken off topic.

I'd like to ask our contributors to take a moment and post themes to the correct place.

I also think that of you can make a hi res version people would download it. There are a lot of people that use gameex as their media center.

Thanks again

Brian Hoffman

[kicker75]

Hi Brian,

It's been a pleasure to do it. And I will upload it correctly shortly too, I just didnt really knew where to put it. I saw a thread for that matter, but prefered to post a new one so I could have maybe more people read it. But doing it the correct way will sure make it more available. I'm still pretty new to GameEx, was looking for a FE maybe a tad more than a month ago now and downloaded a few, I wont give names but you have a general idea I tried GameEx first but didnt really knew how to set it up, and it seemed more than I needed, so I tried the competition, and even nearly fully setup another only to come up to a conclusion I couldnt get an emulator to run, so I checked again what was available, and saw a pretty nice video of GameEx, so I decided to give it a spin, and registered it maybe 30 mins later It's the most awesome piece of software I've seen. I wish all the best to you and everyone who's implied in the GameEx project. And I'm happy to have contributed something to it, as it is my first ever theme or piece of art I've created I just love GameEx that much

I would glady port the theme over to higher res, but I tried, but not sure how to do it, maybe you could help me a bit? What I did was create a new theme based on my current one. Then I took the background image and made it to 1920x1200 (not by zooming but by cloning, so you couldnt tell that it came from a 1024 theme, I guess that's how I should have done it really.) but when I tried to fire up GameEx, it wouldnt start. Something wrong with the image. Maybe because apart from bak and startbak I didnt scaled any other image. And aside from quickly re-arranging the object on the main page in the theme editor, I didnt do anything else, just wanted to see how it would look, and what I needed to do, but couldnt see it. So what would be the main steps in taking my theme and port it to higher res? I dont have to start from scratch, do I?

[iano]

Hi. Sorry to butt in here. But why don't you pm amos_82 as he is the original theme's creator. I'm sure he'd be glad to help. Your blackglass theme looks great btw.

[kicker75]

First off I would like to thank you for your contribution.

Secondly I would like to take a second and remind everyone that on the gameex.net and .com websites there is a theme section that you can upload you theme to with a little about info and a screenshot.

This is the best way to ensure your theme gets max exposure. It also attracts the people that browse the main site for themes and gameex features.

Megaupload links expire and threads do get lost or buired or taken off topic.

I'd like to ask our contributors to take a moment and post themes to the correct place.

I also think that of you can make a hi res version people would download it. There are a lot of people that use gameex as their media center.

Thanks again

Brian Hoffman

Hello, I just tried to upload the theme in the theme section. It didnt worked. I asked for a code, got it. I now enter it with my email address, click submit, and it just stays there on the same page and do nothing. I tried to log in, but its not the same login as the forum. What am I doing wrong here?

[kicker75]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to make the theme 1920x1200 and it seems there is a problem with the font system in GameEx. I had noticed something wrong before, but it didnt really bugged me out that much. The settings for game fonts in the setup do nothing, the smaller and bigger settings does nothing for me. But thing is, when I created the new theme at 1920x1200 using my 1024 theme, the font were off the charts, so I reduced them. Then I thought, no need for large fonts at that resolution, anyone who will run this will have HD so nice small fonts would be best. So I reduced the fonts to 12 and title to 18. (Actually, I dont see no title, I have a title item in my theme editor and where is the title? The game title seems to be the select line 1 item, also I have a date and time item on the page in the theme editor and yet it doesnt show either in gameex). So my question is, how do I make the size of the font smaller, make the settings in the setup program (for font size) works, and make the date/time appear?

I saved a blank template at 1920x1200 over every background and gameex starts, so I had to really replace all image so it could start... now only if I can get the font to work.

Thanks in advance!

[Mark32]

Very nice theme. I just tried it on my test machine and it looks great, I like it allot.

Later I will be trying it on my Arcade Machine I hope it looks as good since my arcade macine can only display up to 800x600.

Thanks for creating the Theme.

[T. Goodchild]

Nice theme. I like everything except the yellow folder icon. I'm finishing a theme as well and have a black one if you care to use it.

[kicker75]

Thank you for making me notice that icon, I dont use the multimedia part yet of gameex, in the process of setting it all up together first.. I will revise that icon I'll try to come up with something to match the dark drives.

Mark32, I just tried the theme at 800x600 and it seems to scale well too. Even at 1920 it still looks good, that's the resolution I'm running it at.

I'm in the process of converting it to 1920x1200, but I cant make the font smaller than they are in the current theme.... so its pointless to continue until I can have nice small fonts... to make use of all the screen estate.

[Brian Hoffman]

Hello, I just tried to upload the theme in the theme section. It didnt worked. I asked for a code, got it. I now enter it with my email address, click submit, and it just stays there on the same page and do nothing. I tried to log in, but its not the same login as the forum. What am I doing wrong here?

Sorry about the delay in the reply. I wasn't aware that may be broken. Thanks for reporting.